These paintings manifest both his religious beliefs—his practice of Catholicism remained private until it was revealed at his funeral—and an irreverence toward the subject, expressed through ironic commercial logos and transgressive repetitions of Christ’s image.

“We are all born as a blank slate, who knows who we will become. I wanted people to think about where tremendous evil comes from,” artist Nina Maria Kleivan tells the National Post about her enormously controversial exhibit “Potency,” which debuted nine years ago and is suddenly back in the news because of her new book, Enigma.
Kleivan photographed her four-month-old daughter dressed up as Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mao Zedong, Idi Amin, Augusto Pinochet, and Slobodan Milosevic—and finally naked—to show that “we all have evil within us,” the artist says.

Beginning tomorrow, watercolors by James Tissot, part of his series of 350 paintings that tell the story of the New Testament, will go on display at the Brooklyn Museum for the first time in more than 20 years.

This 400,000-year-old flint hand axe—discovered in 1859 and the first strong piece of evidence that humans had been living much longer than a few thousand years—is being displayed at the Natural History Museum for the first time. (Keep in mind that archaeologists have since discovered stone tools that date back more than 2 million years.)